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Vary sentences for a reason - Online practice 2

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Original sentence pair: A: 'When the lights failed, the room fell quiet.' B: 'The room fell quiet when the lights failed.' Both are grammatical. The surrounding scene would determine their effect; no fixed rule says every short sentence creates tension or every long sentence slows everything down.

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